The master of disguise. The heist. The narrow getaway. The obsessive police inspector. The inside man. The prison note. The body double. The last-minute escape ...
My 1912 selection is spectacularly strange, but I won't spoil the surprise just yet. First, a plot summary: A restless husband and wife are bored with ...
Gaining a 'literacy' in film, both for viewers and creators, involves the recognition (or invention) of certain conventions that apply to the medium. Over time, ...
I chose Wizard of Oz for the specific purpose of comparing it to the much-beloved musical from 1939. Then, while watching the elder version, ...
While we're still in the realm of public domain, I'll embed the film below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzvmZAzCF0M (If you find youtube's quality unbearable , try the Internet Archive ...
Fantasmagorie was the first fully-animated film. Emile Cohl, a Frenchman, constructed the short over several months by hand-drawing and photographing each frame of animation, ...
This bizarre silent reel, helmed by Edwin S. Porter (photographer of the technically impressive Great Train Robbery) and produced by the Edison Mfg. ...